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A volcano of whale songs - Zaina Alsous "Bird Prelude"

Where great whales come sailing by - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

Communications between rocks and whales - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"

A perfect emerald the size and shape of a whale - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"

Whales were exiled from the air - Jaswinder Bolina "Oops Canary"

Loading a boat to look for whales - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"

Let it enchant the dolphins and the whales - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"

Prayed to the songs of whales - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Advises Jane Eyre"

A message through the cages of a great whale's teeth - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"

Making Melville eat his whale - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Swarms of whales and dolphins - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

In which the hulls of whales steered them - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"

To understand the language of the whales - Tony Hoagland "Legend"

Blue whales undulate their slow song - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

The whale memorial service - Kaneko Misuzu "Whale Memorial" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

Might swallow two whales - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

Whale songs in amber - Jennifer L. Knox "Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa"

Ferries where the whales bloom - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

The whales roar in perfect tune and time - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Stretched into a whale - Eve Merriam "Catch a Little Rhyme"

With eight stranded whales - Marianne Moore "The Steeple-Jack"

The green whale of the summer - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly

To drink from a whale bone cup - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Echoes the numb roll of the whale - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"

Over the whale's acre, would wander wide - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Jonah wept within the whale - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

The whale swallowed the sun - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

The whales sing their beautiful warnings - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"

A whale made of sky - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"


The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"


the humpback whale breaching the slate screen - David Maduli "alameda point"


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